untowardness

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They all talked to her as though she was simply obstinate and a fool, not perceiving, as she did herself, that the untowardness of her fortune had prescribed this destiny for her.

From Lady Anna by Trollope, Anthony

He murmured against that untowardness which, after condemning him to long sorrows on the land, now pursued him with added griefs on the deep.

From Israel Potter by Melville, Herman

Her idea was that all her misery had come from the untowardness of the meeting.

From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Trollope, Anthony

That life is care and trouble and untowardness?

From Ladies-In-Waiting by Curtiss, Christine Tucke

It was probably that untowardness in his outward appearance, which never afterwards left him, that made his schoolfellows consider him a dull boy, fit only to be the butt of their ridicule.

From Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Cary, Henry Francis